[minutes] Internationalization telecon 2025-07-17

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                             – DRAFT –
           Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

17 July 2025

   [2]Agenda. [3]IRC log.

      [2] https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/3d8e05fe-09ac-4406-91ee-50e6ad47529d/20250717T150000/
      [3] https://www.w3.org/2025/07/17-i18n-irc

Attendees

   Present
          Addison, Atsushi, Bert, Fuqiao, JcK, r12a

   Regrets
          -

   Chair
          Addison Phillips

   Scribe
          atsushi

Contents

    1. [4]Agenda Review
    2. [5]Action Items
    3. [6]Info Share
    4. [7]Review RADAR Review
    5. [8]Pending Issue Review
    6. [9]Double-check our issue 1935
    7. [10]Floating time article
    8. [11]AOB?

Meeting minutes

  Agenda Review

  Action Items

   <addison> [12]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues

     [12] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues

   <addison> #176

   <gb> [13]Action 176 add WG comment to html 11395 (on aphillips)
   due 2025-07-03

     [13] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/176

   <addison> #175

   <gb> [14]Action 175 respond to our #2005 (on aphillips) due
   2025-06-26

     [14] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/175

   addison: #176 working on

   <addison> close #175

   <gb> Closed [15]issue #175

     [15] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/175

   addison: #175 done

   <addison> #173

   <gb> [16]Action 173 ping zainab (on aphillips) due 2025-06-19

     [16] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/173

   addison: #173 haven't heard anything yet
   … close this, and will take another action to ping

   <addison> #169

   <gb> [17]Action 169 reply to html 10843 and css 9832 (on
   aphillips) due 2025-05-08

     [17] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/169

   <addison> #162

   <gb> [18]Action 162 poll I18N/CSS for new day/time (on
   aphillips) due 2025-03-25

     [18] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/162

   addison: #162, ping but no responce yet
   … I may escalate this to CSS WG, whether WG is interested in or
   not

   <addison> #157

   <gb> [19]Action 157 write glossary proposal identifying options
   and next steps for those options (on aphillips) due 2025-02-20

     [19] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/157

   addison: so, action is done, but open another

   <addison> #135

   <gb> [20]Action 135 follow up on XR issue 1393 about locale in
   session (on aphillips) due 2024-10-17

     [20] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/135

   <addison> #127

   <gb> [21]Action 127 make a list of shared topics of interest
   between TG2 and W3C-I18N (on aphillips) due 2024-09-30

     [21] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/127

   <addison> #3

   <gb> [22]CLOSED Action 3 Give ghurlbot access to write to the
   repo (on r12a) due 18 Jul 2023

     [22] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/3

   <addison> #33

   <gb> [23]Action 33 Close issues marked `close?` or bring to WG
   for further review (on aphillips)

     [23] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/33

   <addison> #7

   <gb> [24]Action 7 Remind shepherds to tend to their awaiting
   comment resolutions (Evergreen) (on aphillips, xfq, himorin,
   r12a, bert-github) due 18 Jul 2023

     [24] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/7

   <addison> #4

   <gb> [25]Action 4 Work with respec and bikeshed to provide the
   character markup template as easy-to-use markup (on aphillips)
   due 27 Jul 2023

     [25] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/4

  Info Share

  Review RADAR Review

   <addison> [26]https://github.com/orgs/w3c/projects/91/views/1

     [26] https://github.com/orgs/w3c/projects/91/views/1

   addison: no new incoming
   … any other progress?

   [silent]

  Pending Issue Review

   <addison> [27]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/
   issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Apending

     [27] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is:issue+is:open+label:pending

   addison: nothing new here

  Double-check our issue 1935

   <addison> #1935

   <gb> Issue 1935 not found

   <addison> [28]i18n-activity#1935

     [28] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/1935

   <gb> [29]Issue 1935 Unicode identifiers in the WAT format (by
   xfq) [close?] [needs-resolution] [s:wasm-core]
   [t:markup_identifiers] [cg:webassembly]

     [29] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/1935

   addison: quick q? issue above

   <addison> [30]WebAssembly/spec#1843

     [30] https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/issues/1843

   <gb> [31]CLOSED Issue 1843 Unicode identifiers in the WAT
   format (by xfq) [i18n-needs-resolution]

     [31] https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/issues/1843

   addison: is this issue, previously discussed on character
   identifiers
   … told them we will not raise formal objection previously, and
   in result no change made
   … do we want to say anything before advancing?

   addison: they only permits id with ascii

   <addison> [32]WebAssembly/spec#1618

     [32] https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/issues/1618

   <gb> [33]CLOSED Issue 1618 relax the var to allow utf8 encoding
   in the wat syntax (by bobzhang) [i18n-tracker]

     [33] https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/issues/1618

   addison: many ascii string identifier definitions have been
   developed so far

   <xfq> [34]WebAssembly/spec#1843

     [34] https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/issues/1843

   xfq: that's old one, and filed new as above
   … for clarification
   … they allow escaped Unicode identifiers or just use ascii

   addison: want to ask again or?

   JcK: if they are sufficient with escaped identifier, should be
   fine?

   xfq: they require escaping for all non-ascii identifiers

   <xfq> [35]WebAssembly/annotations?tab=readme-ov-file

     [35] https://github.com/WebAssembly/annotations?tab=readme-ov-file

   [all seeking spec text around identifier]

   <addison> [36]https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/#names%E2%91%A0

     [36] https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/#names①

   <xfq> [37]https://webassembly.github.io/annotations/core/text/
   values.html#text-id

     [37] https://webassembly.github.io/annotations/core/text/values.html#text-id

   [38]https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/text/
   lexical.html#characters

     [38] https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/text/lexical.html#characters

   While source text may contain any Unicode character in comments
   or string literals, the rest of the grammar is formed
   exclusively from the characters supported by the 7-bit ASCII
   subset of Unicode.

   <r12a> [39]https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/
   bikeshed/#characters%E2%91%A0

     [39] https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/bikeshed/#characters①

   <addison> [40]https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/
   bikeshed/#text-idchar

     [40] https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/bikeshed/#text-idchar

   <r12a> [41]https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/
   bikeshed/#strings%E2%91%A0

     [41] https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/bikeshed/#strings①

   <r12a> [42]https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/
   bikeshed/#identifiers%E2%91%A0

     [42] https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/bikeshed/#identifiers①

   addison: should say anything? any good reason to ask changes?

   <xfq> "Indices can be given in both numeric and symbolic form.
   Symbolic identifiers that stand in lieu of indices start with

   <xfq> , followed by eiter a sequence of printable ASCII
   characters that does not contain a space, quotation mark,
   comma, semicolon, or bracket, or by a quoted name."

   <xfq> "or by a quoted name"

   xfq: found that identifier itself is defined by above text

   <xfq> "Names are strings denoting a literal character sequence.
   A name string must form a valid UTF-8 encoding as defined by
   Unicode (Section 2.5) and is interpreted as a string of Unicode
   scalar values."

   xfq: this is what they define

   addison: close tracker issue.

   <addison> close [43]i18n-activity#1935

     [43] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/1935

   <gb> Cannot close issue #1935 -> ghurlbot does not have the
   correct permissions to execute `CloseIssue`

  Floating time article

   <xfq> [44]https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/
   qa-floating-times.en

     [44] https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-floating-times.en

   <xfq> [45]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/
   issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20%5Bquestions%2Fqa-floating
   -times%5D

     [45] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/issues?q=is:issue state:open [questions/qa-floating-times]

   xfq: we have sent out floating time article for review
   … we have several issues there

   addison: one reason not published is Temporal has been making
   progress in JS
   … best practices are still evolving on this front
   … separate activity on format side
   … probably not suitable to evolve until things setlled

   xfq: so, wait until Temporal, and Semantic Skeletons in
   Unicode?

   addison: correct
   … message format is under development

   [situation around external development]

   <xfq> [46]w3c/i18n-drafts#662

     [46] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/issues/662

   <gb> [47]Issue 662 Untranslated word in the Japanese
   boilerplate (by xfq)

     [47] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/issues/662

   xfq: need to be checked by Atsushi

  AOB?

   <xfq> [48]w3c/i18n-drafts#622

     [48] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/pull/622

   <gb> [49]Pull Request 622 Initial work on address formats (by
   xfq)

     [49] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/pull/622

   xfq: PR about address format above, should be interested by all

   <addison> [50]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/blob/xfq/
   address-2024/questions/qa-address-formats.en.md

     [50] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/blob/xfq/address-2024/questions/qa-address-formats.en.md

   addison: check preview
   … still working on, or agenda+?

   xfq: this is draft, Richard already give comment and under
   iteration, and is fine to be agenda+

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